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Before hosting Focal Point, Bryan Fischer was the chaplain of the Idaho State Senate and the head of the Idaho chapter of the American Family Association.

Published: June 14, 2012

In April, Mitt Romney hired Richard Grenell, an openly gay man, to serve as his campaign's national security spokesman. Within hours, Grenell was being attacked by a Christian radio talk show host named Bryan Fischer, whose Focal Point call-in show reaches more than a million listeners a day.

Nine days after Fischer began his on-air attack, Grenell resigned. He had been the only openly gay member of Romney's campaign staff.

The Christian right and Bryan Fischer saw Grenell's resignation as a "tremendous victory," says New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer.

Yale Divinity School's Facebook page has posted a link on American Magazine's website, which is not working as the time of this RRW post. The YDS post reads in part:

Book by Margaret Farley, RSM, Condemned by Vatican. Prof. Emerita Farley says her book "Just Love" was not intended to express “current official Catholic teaching” but rather to help people “think through their questions about human sexuality,” in response to a Vatican charge that her book “affirms positions that are in direct contradiction with Catholic teaching in the field of sexual morality.” The Vatican, through its Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, sent an official “Notification” released in Rome today.